Companion Property & Casualty Insurance Co. v. Category 5 Management Group, LLC

This is an appeal and cross-appeal from a final judgment awarding attorney’s fees to Category 5 Management Group, LLC (“Category 5”) in an insurance coverage action. We affirm without discussion the trial court’s decision to apply a contingency fee multiplier to enhance the attorney’s fee award.. However, for the reasons that follow, we reverse the trial court’s determination . that the contingency fee agreement did not contemplate payment of attorney’s fees for the defense of Category 5 in the underlying Alabama personal injury lawsuit, which was the subject of this insurance coverage…